Edward_Pope_(Archdeacon_of_Gloucester)

Edward Pope (priest)

Edward Pope (priest)

English priest

Edward Pope (c. 1602–1671) was a Church of England minister.

Life

Pope was born in Berkshire and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford.[1] He was Rector of Walton-on-the-Hill, Surrey from 1640.[2] In 1662 he was appointed to Dursley, Gloucestershire[3] by Bishop William Nicholson, another Magdalen man, and became Archdeacon of Gloucester in 1666.[2] He held all three positions until his death at Walton on St. Stephen's day, 1671. He was buried at Walton, where a memorial was erected to his memory.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    Alumni Oxonienses 1500–1714, Phanne-Popejoy
  2. [2]
    Horn, Joyce M. (1996), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, vol. 8, pp. 47–49
  3. [3]
    Bigland's Historical, Monumental and Genealogical Collections part 2. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. 1990. p. 534.
  4. [4]
    Brayley, E.W. (1841). A Topographical History of Surrey volume 4. p. 391.
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